Kingfisher Airlines Sent Eviction Notice by Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd

Kingfisher Airlines that had its operations from domestic Terminal 1A of Mumbai’s airport was given an eviction notice by the Mumbai International Airport Pvt Ltd (MIAL) in the last week of November 2012.

Kingfisher owes 22 crore Rupees to airport operator and was rented check-in desks as well as offices to this terminal. There are now doubts whether Kingfisher would be able to resume its operations or not and therefore consequently, the airport operator started off with the process of finding another airline that could operate from Terminal 1A. In reply to MIAL’s eviction notice, Kingfisher replied that they did not need the space because they had already scaled down the operations and that they were willing to voluntarily hand over the rented space to MIAL.
   
Kingfisher initially had around 400 domestic as well as international flights everyday from a range of airports in India till 2011 and these flights were scaled down from November 2011. Airport sources claimed that by September 2012 end; Kingfisher merely had 16 flights operating in a day at the Terminal 1A of Mumbai Airport.
 
As per the plans, Go Air might be shifted from Terminal 1B to 1A and the space allotted to Kingfisher might also be reclaimed.